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[pawsche] 23/1/2020 12:27

"go to college"...??? She hasn't been to school yet!

[maxk] 23/1/2020 12:19

Greta Thunberg told to study economics by US treasury secretary


Steven Mnuchin takes swipe at activist’s call for immediate fossil fuel divestment


Graeme Wearden in Davos

Thu 23 Jan 2020 10.34 GMT



Donald Trump’s treasury secretary has dismissed Greta Thunberg’s call for immediate fossil fuel divestment, saying the 17-year-old activist should go to college and study economics.

In a withering slapdown on the climate emergency movement, Steven Mnuchin pretended not to know who Thunberg was, before dismissing her concerns as ill-informed.

Asked whether calls for public and private-sector divestment from fossil fuel companies would threaten US growth, Mnuchin jibed: “Is she the chief economist? Who is she, I’m confused” – before clarifying that he was joking.

“After she goes and studies economics in college she can come back and explain that to us,” Mnuchin added, at a press conference at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

[grahamite2] 23/1/2020 12:08

It provides pay to useless jobsworths who think the same way as Minerve

Bingo!

This is, of course, the sole function of much of the public sector.

[crossing_the_rubicon] 23/1/2020 11:41

Evening Standard pushing "Insider Dealing" it seems


How to work the stock market like Gordon Gekko
Make like the Wall Street top dog with our handy guide



Utterly useless article of course..

[crossing_the_rubicon] 23/1/2020 11:39

"grahamite223 Jan '20 - 11:27 - 290396 of 290398
Pray tell, Minerve, what exactly the point is of a regulatory body that never achieves anything except occasionally to make things worse?"


It provides pay to useless jobsworths who think the same way as Minerve

[crossing_the_rubicon] 23/1/2020 11:35

"mr.elbee23 Jan '20 - 10:15 - 290386 of 290398
will they be collectable, and hence valuable,in time,Crossing?"


Parts are perishable I gather but the freeze dried stuff lasts 25-30 years...

Doubt they'll have any "collectable" value myself but you never know!

[bargainbob] 23/1/2020 11:30

Better to have weak law than lawlessness.

[bargainbob] 23/1/2020 11:28

Help me up from the floor , rolling about laughing here at G2,

The Jessie James of the thread.

[grahamite2] 23/1/2020 11:27

Pray tell, Minerve, what exactly the point is of a regulatory body that never achieves anything except occasionally to make things worse?

[minerve 2] 23/1/2020 11:20

"Not have one at all, of course."

Not have an FCA or anything similar.

There you have it folks, from our resident intellect.

ROFLMAO

(No wonder he has done FA of note in his life)

[maxk] 23/1/2020 11:11

Little wonder the banks would like everything to go digital.


Just think of the fun they could have if they held the whip hand over every purchase.

[grahamite2] 23/1/2020 10:47

Not have one at all, of course.

[minerve 2] 23/1/2020 10:34

"The FCA can't get anything right, ever, and the sooner it's wound up the better."

And what? Not have one at all or replace it with something else that is named different?


What a clown! LOL

[grahamite2] 23/1/2020 10:33

The new bank interest charges are 100% the fault of the regulator. The FCA can't get anything right, ever, and the sooner it's wound up the better.

Along with the Advertising Standards Authority, which served a real purpose when it checked whether ads were legal, decent, honest and truthful, but which is now concerned only with social engineering.

[minerve 2] 23/1/2020 10:31

m5

Feeling sore from last night?

ROFLMAO!

It is great viewing. LOL

Obviously we tired you out on Sunday!

ROFLMAO!

[jordaggy] 23/1/2020 10:28

Terry Smith runs the 'Fundsmith' fund. A very boring, take no chances fund...it's where I have the bulk of my money. Thank heavens!

Sadly Mr.Elbee, the north of Thailand is stricken every year by the huge issue of 'burning', the farmers burn off the rice stubble and it causes dreadful smog; same goes for the middle of the country where they burn off sugar cane stubble...and Bangkok is a big NO NO... the US air quality index can go over 500! It went off the scale last year and reached 900...I head south this time of year to places like Phuket, where the air is much cleaner due to the fact there is little burning on the island. My recommendation to you though would be Penang in Malaysia; its wonderful; clean air and very civilised with beautiful scenery and lovely people; clean peaceful beaches and relatively cheap...food it also wonderful.

[mr.elbee] 23/1/2020 10:18

I'm of the same situation and opinion as you,jordaggy.

But I dont know who Terry Smith is.

Is there anywhere in North Thailand that isnt humid for an auld fella like me?

[I lived in Singapore for two years and the humidity really had a bad effect on my breathing.]

[jordaggy] 23/1/2020 10:17

Update: The pound has rallied as doubts grew over the prospect of an interest rate cut by the Bank of England next week following upbeat data from the Confederation of British Industry (CBI).

Sterling jumped 0.7% to $1.313 against the dollar after the CBI reported a pick-up in manufacturers' sentiment.

Investors are now pricing in an interest rate cut next week as a 50-50 possibility, down from a 75% chance implied by markets on Friday.

The pound's jump weighed on overseas earners on the FTSE 100, which fell into the red, down 26 points, or 0.3%, at 7,585.

But the FTSE 250, whose stocks are more focused on the UK domestic economy, made gains, rising 0.2%.

[mr.elbee] 23/1/2020 10:15

will they be collectable, and hence valuable,in time,Crossing?

[crossing_the_rubicon] 23/1/2020 10:12

MR Elbee,

"There is no binary choice in most things on this planet"

For many pensioners it is a binary choice, each and every year - food or heat.
Now the licence fee adds more pressure on their financially stressed positions.

"You buy less..less frequently(And there's the choice - buy less across the board so as to afford some meagre heating)

and noan extra licence fee on top of such...